Re: String Freeze breakage

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Christian,

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 09:20, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Christian Rose">
> 
> > > I again apologize, thank you for all your hard work - sorry for making
> > > your job a little bit harder.
> > 
> > It's not "a little bit" harder. String freeze is crucial in order to give
> > translators a chance of producing a fully translated desktop in as many
> > languages as possible, and at this time there are so many string change
> > requests and freeze breakages that it's very hard to keep track of them
> > for most people, even though several weeks have passed since we entered a
> > point where there shouldn't even be any more of those.
> 
> Dude, I think it would be perfectly appropriate if you sent some rantage to
> d-d-l about this. I've been incredibly surprised by the attempts to slushify
> the string freeze this time around. Not good, particularly since we've had
> long discussions about how much we want to see more (and better)
> translations.

	Totally agree with Jeff on this. And feel free to start telling people
where to go with their string changes.

	Also, it would be good if over the next couple of weeks you (and
Kjartan) could keep the release-team informed as to whether the quality
of the translations in this release looks like it has suffered seriously
as a result. We would definitely be looking at this as a potential
blocker for the release.

Thanks,
Mark.